Li Long, Li Qingxia and Tao Daqiang were all walking back carrying urea bags - eight bags alone!
When I got home, it was already dawn, and the sun still had a while to rise. Plastic sheets had been laid out in the yard, and a large chuck had been placed.
Even so, seeing the three Li Long carrying so many bags, Du Chunfang in the yard was still a little surprised:
"Why do you get so many?"
"Not only There are fish, aquatic plants, wild ducks and water chickens." Li Long put down the tires and mesh bags and poured them on the plastic sheet.
A lot of nets were piled high with fish, and the three people consciously began to select fish and set up the nets at the same time.
After all, after selling the fish, you have to come back to pick up the net. If you mess up the net at this time, you will cause trouble for yourself.
From the beginning of spring to now, everyone has become accustomed to it. When choosing fish, try not to squeeze the fish hard or remove the scales, so that the fish will not be injured and can live longer.
I took out four more than half-sized bags of fish. There were not too many ditch fish. I put them in another small bag, poured some water into them, and tied them to both sides of the two bicycles.
Li Long felt that the bicycle was a little under-inflated, and he had to take Tao Daqiang with him. He took out the air pump from the spare house, unscrewed the cap on the rear tire valve of the bicycle, clamped it with a duckbill, and started to inflate.
After seven or eight blows, I pressed down on the back seat, and then five or six more times. When I felt it was enough, I took off the inflator.
“Let’s go!” Li Long said to Tao Daqiang and Li Qingxia.
On the back seat of Li Qingxia's bicycle were a basin and a scale, and a small bag of ditch fish hung on the front handle. He had already ridden out.
Li Long pushed the bicycle onto the road, and after pedaling a few times, Tao Daqiang sat on it.
The bicycle shook, and Li Long began to pedal forward with all his strength.
When they arrived in the countryside, Tao Daqiang and Li Long switched sides, and he took Li Long with him.
During this period, Li Long was in the mountains, and Tao Daqiang also learned to ride a bicycle in the team.
He is still thinking about whether he should also buy a bicycle.
When they arrived at the county, Tao Daqiang handed the car to Li Long. He ran to the market, while Li Long went to the big yard to get the scales and basins.
Gu Xiaoxia had already gone to work. Li Long took his things, locked the door, and headed to Shicheng.
There are still a lot of people in Shicheng Old Street. There are not as many people buying fish today as there were yesterday, but in less than an hour, the fish were still sold out. The good thing about the large flow of people is that as long as the things are good, you don’t have to worry about selling them.
After returning from Shicheng, Li Long did not go to the free market to find Li Qingxia and the others. He went to the acquisition station.
"Hey, Comrade Li is here." Chen Hongjun opened the door for a while, and no one came to the door today. He was very happy to see the dragon, "Are you going to sell fish?"
"Yes." Li Long nodded, and then asked: "Comrade Chen, I would like to ask, do you accept Cynomorium Cynomorium?"
"What about Cynomorium Cynomorium?" Chen Hongjun put down the towel for wiping the table. Said, "We used to accept this, but now we don't accept it anymore."
"No more?" Li Long was a little disappointed.
“Yes, but I know where to collect it.” Chen Hongjun said with a smile, “How much Cynomorium do you have?”
“There are too many, there are white thorns everywhere on the alkaline beach. "They are all."
"That's okay..." Chen Hongjun said, "The pharmaceutical company accepts this. This is a big deal." It’s a medicinal material that tastes good. Of course, not all pharmaceutical companies accept it, it depends on the scale and processing conditions.”
Li Long knew this. In the last life, many people in the team knew that this was a medicinal material, and some people had taken it. This idea couldn't be sold at the purchasing station, so it went to the pharmaceutical company, and then came back and said that the pharmaceutical company wouldn't accept it.
But a few years before Li Long fell ill and died in his last life, the price of this stuff had risen. The dry goods cost tens or hundreds of yuan per kilogram, and the wild ones were even more expensive.
At that time, there were not many alkali shoals left in the team. They had all been cleared to plant cotton. The few remaining ones were very far away. No one in the team was dedicated to digging them. After all, there were too few. .
There are people who specialize in digging for this and ride around on electric tricycles to look for it. After digging, they take it back and deal with it themselves.
So although the entire team has this resource, to be honest, not many people make money from it. Occasionally, one or two have sold money, but they stopped doing it later because it was too troublesome, and they said it was a pharmaceutical company. The requirements are too high.
"This needs to be cooked." Chen Hongjun said, "It has to be washed clean, and it needs to be not rotten, and it needs to be connected to the roots. You know that thing that looks like fluff on it, that thing It can’t be peeled off, and it can’t be too dry when drying. If it is too dry, it will be difficult to slice later..."
Li Long wrote these words down carefully.
Leaving the purchasing station, he did not go to the medicinal material company, but to the market. Seeing that Li Qingxia and Tao Daqiang still had some fish left to sell, they walked around the market twice. Waiting for them to sell the fish, the three of them went to the big meat canteen to have breakfast together, and then returned to the team.
Du Chunfang has already started to pick up the net, Li Juan is helping in the yard, and Li Qiang is playing with the water chickens.
Three people joined the team to pick up the net, and Li Long replaced Li Juan. Li Long could obviously feel Li Juan let out a sigh of relief, she must be quite tired.
With the participation of three people, the collection was completed in more than an hour. Tao Daqiang went back to cook, and Li Long also started cooking. Du Chunfang couldn't cook for so many people in the family, and Li Qingxia couldn't do it either. Li Long was also familiar with this matter.
After dinner, Li Long did not return to the horse number. Instead, he took a shovel, a bag on the back seat of the car, and rode his bicycle to the east of Alkali Beach.
There are many white thorns, tamarisk and suaeda growing on the alkaline beach. These plants are quite unique. The white thorn is a large puddle on the ground, and now it has red and purple fruits. This stuff is sour with a little sweetness and a medicinal smell. Don't eat too much. If you eat too much, you will get a nosebleed. Let’s not talk about red willows. What we see in later generations are basically shrubs, but here there are too many. Although some people cut them down, because there are so many, many of them have grown into trees, some three or four meters high.
Suaeda is a big green ball, which does not need to be pruned and becomes a ball. Some birds, like the big-headed finch and oriole in the local dialect here, will also do it in the suaeda. nest.
Suaeda is also used by locals who have been here for generations to burn soda ash. The burned green color is as green as tourmaline, which is very beautiful. Of course, forget about the leftovers.
Li Long didn't even need to look for it. On the roadside, he could see purple-red Cynomorium cynomorium sticking out of the white alkaline soil next to the white thorns.
After holding up the car, Li Long walked towards the nearest Cynomorium Cynomorium with a shovel and a bag.
Because this thing is purple-red and has a lot of water content, just like dye, some children will pull the head off and use it as a pen to write and draw on the hard soil.
Li Long found a big one and dug it carefully, trying not to damage it. With this shovel, three were dug out directly. The longest one was more than a foot long, and the short one was more than 20 centimeters long. The roots were still connected together.
Gently pulling off the soil above, Li Long put three Cynomorium Cynomorium into the bag and continued digging.
The alkali in this alkali beach is very large, and the upper layer of soil is pure white and even crystallized. This means that only salt-alkali-tolerant plants such as Suaeda alba can grow. Occasionally, reeds can be seen, and they are not very tall.
Li Long spent half an hour digging out half the bag, then directly put it on the back seat of his bicycle and rode back.
Back at Ma Hao, Li Long first used a brush to clean the soil from the roots of Cynomorium cynomorium, then climbed up to the roof and spread it out to dry in the sun. The slope of the roof is not large, the space is not small, and there are no clutter, which is perfect for drying things.
He planned to do an experiment.
In the next two days, Li Long continued to catch fish and sell them. On the third day, he went to the house to see that Cynomorium was drying, and he carefully picked it up and put it in a bag. I took advantage of my lunch break to ride to the county.
When Li Long rode his bicycle to the medicinal material company, he had just started work here.
The medicinal material company was also responsible for selling medicine at this time, so even though Li Long was carrying a bag when he came in, the people at the counter still regarded him as a medicine buyer and asked:
"Comrade, what medicine are you buying?"
"I don't buy medicine, I sell Cynomorium cynomorium." Li Long said.
“I can’t make the decision on this, I have to ask our director.”
Li Long went up to the second floor to find the director. He had been here once, but the director said he wouldn't accept it.
This time Li Long found the other party again.
"Didn't I say I won't accept it anymore?" The other party was also very impatient. These people are just annoying and pestering!
"I brought a sample this time, director, can you take a look?" Li Long was not angry and said with a smile.
To make money, don’t shiver.
The director had no choice but to wave his hand.
Li Long took out his dried Cynomorium cynomorium and placed it on the table.
"Is this...did you handle it?" The director glanced at it and originally planned to reject it directly, but he didn't expect that the quality of Cynomorium Cynomorium was not bad!
"Well, I'll take care of it." Li Long knew it was interesting, and he said, "If the Cynomorium cynomorium I bring is like this, will you accept it here?"
"Then ——If they can all reach this quality, we will accept it. "The director didn't accept it before, naturally because most of the things brought by those who came to the door were either damaged or had dirt or even dirt and impurities. Things, then they need to be processed again after they are collected. How troublesome!
"Then I guarantee it will be in such good condition." Li Long said, "Director, can you tell me the price?"
"You promise? How do you guarantee it?" The director's guarantee about Li Long is true. Not very convinced.
"Actually, I am a buyer of a supply and marketing cooperative, and I do some of my own work on the side." Li Long took out the certificate, "Director Li of the purchasing department of the supply and marketing cooperative can prove it."< br>
After reading the proof, this master Ren's expression softened, he handed the certificate to Li Long, picked up the Cynomorium cynomorium and looked at it carefully, and then said:
"If it's all in this condition, I can give you fifty cents per kilogram for the dry goods. price.”
Li Longmo calculated that 50 cents per kilogram of dry food equals more than 10 cents per kilogram of fresh food - that is, four to five kilograms of fresh food and one kilogram of dry food.
If you charge 5 cents per kilogram of fresh produce from the team, there will definitely be a lot of people coming to sell it to you.
You just need to find a place to dry.
Anyway, there are so many Cynomoriums in Alkaline Beach, and there is no cost except labor. I thought that as long as I let the news out through Tao Daqiang, some people would be willing to come and help me dig them out.
Now that the wheat harvest season has passed, it will take some time for sunflower and corn to be harvested. With such a gap period, everyone should be motivated to dig Cynomorium cynomorium.
"Will you accept whatever I bring?" Li Long finally asked.
"Well, I will take as much as you can bring - of course, the premise is that the quality is so good."
Li Long smiled, that must be no problem.
This matter is settled! (End of this chapter)